Recipe sharing seems to be the most common among "foodie social communicators." AllRecipes.com claims, "Looking for recipes? You’ve come to the right place. Allrecipes has more than 40000 free recipes - all created, tested, reviewed and approved by home cooks." In addition, "Supporting Members can edit, save & print recipes their way! " Similar sites include recipezaar.com and myrecipe.com
If you think about where you go for recipes...these sites make sense. You look to the most trusted sources....friends and family. These sites offer the same feedback friends and family will give with the same homestyle recipes.
It is ingenious.
Further, it is easier than having to go through your phonebook and talking to every aunt/cousin/sister/mother.
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Kari- I totally agree that the Internet/social media has made finding recipes easier and more fun. I love AllRecipes's 'Healthy Cooking' section and often find myself browsing through it for new recipes. I also can see how the 'Recipe Exchange' section could be helpful for cooks looking for some quick answers on what they should and should not use as a substitute in certain recipes. This is awesome because sometimes there's that one ingredient the recipe calls for that you're missing and if another cook can suggest a substitute ingredient, then you'd be able to make that dish.
Your post got me thinking, "I wonder what else is out there," so I searched and found something nteresting. Have you seen RecipeThing yet?
The main page says, "Are your tried-and-true recipes lying around in emails, Word documents, Crisco-covered cards and crumbling cookbooks? RecipeThing lets you organize your favorite recipes, share them with your friends, and use them again and again.
We’ll also save you time in the kitchen and the grocery store—just tell us what you want to cook this week and what you keep in your pantry, and your shopping list is done! It’s fun, easy, and free."
You have to sign up for this site, but it may be worth it. The first paragraph makes RecipeThing sound like any other recipe sharing site, but the second intrigued me. I sometimes stray away from certain recipes because I don't want to go through the hassle of figuring out what I need to buy, so something like this would totally help me out and open me up to more recipe options.
http://www.recipething.com/
I have definitely used social media to find recipes. My roommate and I wanted to make roasted garlic last semester and we weren't positive how to make it so we looked online. We ended up finding a video of Giada (you seem like you know the food network channel) making it. It was interesting to find a video instead of a written out recipe. Turns out it wasn't that hard to make and really great with bread!
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